Canonbury, since 2016
A small physiotherapy and osteopathy clinic in Canonbury. Forty-five-minute appointments, registered practitioners only, no block-booked packages or upsold add-ons. Sports rehab, post-surgical recovery, chronic pain, ergonomics.
HCPC registered
Every physiotherapist
Average appointment
45 minutes, not 20
Established
Canonbury, 2016
Therapies
Every therapy we offer is priced on this site. What you see at assessment is what appears on your invoice. If a clinical path changes, we price the change first and seek your agreement before anything is done.
Physiotherapy
Hands-on manual therapy paired with graded exercise. Not the fifteen-minute rushed appointments that never resolve the problem.
from £90
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Osteopathy
For clients who want a structural view rather than a localised one. Particularly effective for recurring pain that physio alone has not resolved.
from £85
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Sports rehab
Graded return-to-play protocols for runners, cyclists, weight-trainers. Written rehab plans, not generic home exercise handouts.
from £90
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Post-surgical
Specialist post-surgical recovery programmes, communicating directly with your surgeon where appropriate, no additional charge.
from £95
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Approach
Kestrel started because its founders were tired of the standard UK physio model. Fifteen-minute appointments, high-throughput clinics, exercise sheets handed out at the door. That model does not resolve chronic pain. It simply moves it down the waiting list. Our appointments are forty-five minutes, and nobody is double-booked.
Our practitioners are on salary, not commission. We will tell you when to stop coming. We will refer you out when the problem is not one we can solve.
Read our approachPrinciples
01
Every physio is HCPC-registered. Every osteopath is GOsC-registered. Every practitioner is named on this site. No sports masseurs treating clinical conditions.
02
The UK private-physio norm is twenty to thirty minutes. That is too short for a proper assessment plus hands-on plus rehab coaching. We budget forty-five minutes and sometimes stay sixty. Same fee either way.
03
If the honest answer is 'six weeks of rehab and this will not come back', we will say so. If it is 'you need an MRI and an orthopaedic referral', we will say so. Our job is to get you better, not to retain you on our books.
Patients
"Three physios in eighteen months could not fix my shoulder. Kestrel booked me in for forty-five minutes. They watched me move for twenty, then treated for twenty, then sent me home with three specific exercises. Shoulder was ninety-percent better in a month."
"Came in expecting to be sold a ten-session package. Was told 'you need two sessions with us and a pilates referral, that will fix it'. They were right. Two sessions, problem gone."
"My osteopath at Kestrel spent the first ten minutes asking about my sleep, my desk height, and when the pain had started. Nobody else had ever asked. Her diagnosis was basically 'your desk setup is wrong' and she was right."
Book
New-patient assessments include movement screening, hands-on, a tailored rehab plan, and a written summary emailed to you within two working days. £90, applied against any treatment course you book in the following ninety days.
